Supermodels Who Aren’t Superthin: Meet the Women Who Proudly Bared it All

Supermodels Who Aren’t Superthin: Meet the Women Who Proudly Bared it All

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Introducing the seven models behind Glamour’s beautiful bodies spread—there’s not a size 0, 2 or 4 in the bunch. Get inspired by their positive body images and learn to love your own curves that much more.

This group portrait was made possible by extreme body confidence. Learn how these seven women earned it.

Photo: Matthias Vriens-McGrath

Kate Dillon, 35, spent four years walking the high-fashion runways before she dropped out of the industry—only to return as a Harvard degree-wielding plus-size star who’s been named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People.”

Photo: Alex Chatelain

Crystal Renn is the author of Hungry, a new memoir about her years as an anorexic high fashion model. Since making the switch to plus-size. Renn, 23, has starred in campaigns as diverse and Dolce & Gabbana and Lane Bryant and appeared everywhere form French Vogue to Glamour (pictured here).

My boyfriend looks at me and just says, ‘You’re beautiful,’ Miller notes. “He doesn’t pick and choose favorite parts—he loves the whole me, so I’ve learned to do the same.”

Photo: Patric Shaw

As a teenage runway model, Amy Lemons, 26, tried to fight her natural curves with constant exercise and dieting. “But my body rebelled, and I was sick all the time,” she says. “I’ve since learned that every body has its own healthy weight—it’s the one you get to by eating and exercising right, not by pushing yourself to the brink.”

Photo: Walter Chin

Anansa Sims, 24, is the daughter of one of the first major African American models, former Glamour cover star Beverly Johnson. After losing 40 pounds to become a straight-size model, she quit and went for M.B.A. Now a plus-size model, she frequently speaks to girls about body image. “I did a shoot in just a bra and panties,” Sims remembers. “I didn’t think much of it until my mom saw the picture and said, ‘Anansa, this is history.’”

Photo: Walter Chin

Having appeared in Seventeen, Vogue and Marie Claire, Jennie Runk, 21, loves the fact that she’s never had to diet for a job. As a plus-size model, she’s learned that “the true sign of a great designer is someone who can fit the curves.”

Photo: Stephane Lee

Ashley Graham, 22, was profiled in a “shape issue” of Vogue.

Photo: Matt Jones Courtesy of Vogue

“I never assume people are looking at me because I’m a bigger girl,” she says. “They’re looking because I’m confident and beautiful. Why think otherwise?”